Inside a hut on remote Whenua Hou/Codfish Island off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island, there’s a chart on the refrigerator depicting the future of a species. That species is the kakapo, an ...

The kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) is a large flightless parrot native to New Zealand. It adapted to life on the ground because New Zealand has few natural terrestrial predators. They are accomplished ...

If we told you there was a species of parrot in the world that can’t fly, would you believe us? We couldn’t believe it ourselves until we saw this wild YouTube video. Those cute little creatures are ...

One of the strangest and most endangered birds in the world, the kakapo, is being brought back from the brink of extinction. The largest of all parrot species, flightless, nocturnal and plant-eating, ...

Of the more than 200 hundred eggs laid by the kakapo females, 75 of them are predicted to live, Andrew Digby, who serves as a science advisor to New Zealand's kakapo recovery operation, told AFP on ...

When humans first settled in New Zealand in the 13th century, they found a wonderland of strange creatures—including a green, bumbling parrot with the face of an owl and the mien of an old gentleman.

The kakapo is a strange little bird. Native to New Zealand, this flightless parrot feels its way through the forest night with a set of modified, whisker-like feathers. And, as Last Chance to See made ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand-- Flossie, Margaret Marie, Jean, Bella, Alice, Ruth, Suzanne, Sarah, Heather and Nora are some of the most fussed-over new mothers anywhere. In the past two months, these ...

Island. The very word connotes isolation — an isolation that has allowed pockets of animal species to evolve in safety over the course of thousands of years. But, as author William Stolzenburg writes ...